Devin Townsend - The Retinal Circus [DVD Rip] (2013)

Progressive metal/ambient from Canada, music DVDRip of the live album, released in 2013.

Devin Townsend is a Canadian musician who at 30 years old, has a long and colourful history. Chosen by guitar virtuoso Steve Vai, a 19 year old Devin performed vocals and guitar opposite Vai on his album Sex & Religion and accompanying world tour. This exposure led to offers from prominent musicians world-wide. Stints with Jason Newsted of Metallica, industrial band Front Line Assembly, the Wildhearts in England and appearances on several tribute records gave Devin the confidence in 1995 to release his first album himself under the name Strapping Young Lad.

The first Strapping Young Lad CD gained attention for having a distinctive sound and brought metal to a new level of heaviness. Devin produced, sang and played most of the instruments on the first album, Heavy As A Really Heavy Thing. Two albums followed: the highly acclaimed City which added veteran metal drummer Gene Hoglan (Dark Angel, Death) and band members Jed Simon and Byron Stroud, then No Sleep Till Bedtime recorded live in Australia (Century Media Records).

Following the desire to experiment musically and frustrated by the limitations of being signed to a label, in 1997 Devin decided to begin his own label called HevyDevy Records. His first solo release, Ocean Machine, won rave reviews for its epic, lush, prog-hard-rock-ambient compositions and began to establish Devin as a strong creative force on the metal scene. Infinity followed in 1998 with a collection of songs inspired by Broadway musicals and exhibited Devin's talent for composition as well as voice and musicianship. The year 2000 came with the release of Physicist which has been described as "speed-metal pop songs" and reflected the confusion and anticipation of the millennium. His sixth album, Terria, a highly characterized and blend of ambient and progressive metal - self-introspection at its most honest. Now hard at work on a new album, with a new group of musicians, the 'Devin Townsend Band' is a collection of futuristic pop metal thatis not afraid to be sensitive - emphasis on heavy.

While very different in style, each album follows a theme inspired by life and documents his emotional state at that phase in his life, like a musical diary that gives you an insight into the many facets of one man's personality. With his unique approach and creativity, Devin stands poised to establish himself as one of the most prolific, innovative, and extraordinary musicians in the metal genre.

As well as his own projects, Devin is making himself known as a world class Producer Engineer by producing all of the fore mentioned albums, as well as records by Soilwork (Natural Born Chaos - Nuclear Blast Records), December, (The Lament Configuration - Earache Records), Lamb Of God (Metal Blade Records), Stuck Mojo, (Pigwalk - Century Media Records) as well as many unsigned up and coming acts.

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Devin Townsend - Retinal Circus (2013) DVDRip

Quality: DVDRip

Video: XviD, 1751 kbps, 720x400

01. "Effervescent!/True North" Epicloud

02. "Lucky Animals" Epicloud

03. "Planet of the Apes" Deconstruction

04. "Truth" Infinity

05. "War" Infinity

06. "Soul Driven" Infinity

07. "Planet Smasher" Ziltoid the Omniscient

08. "Babysong" Synchestra

09. "Vampolka" Synchestra

10. "Vampira" Synchestra

11. "Addicted!" Addicted

12. "Color Your World" Ziltoid the Omniscient

13. "The Greys" Ziltoid the Omniscient

14. "Hyperdrive" Ziltoid the Omniscient

15. "Ih-Ah!" Addicted

16. "Where We Belong" Epicloud

17. "Detox" (Strapping Young Lad) City

18. "Bend It Like Bender!" Addicted

19. "Life" Ocean Machine: Biomech

20. "Kingdom" Physicist

21. "Juular" Deconstruction

22. "Love?" (Strapping Young Lad) Alien

23. "Colonial Boy" Infinity

24. "Grace" Epicloud

25. "Little Pig" Epiclouder

Audio: AC3 2.0, lossless

Length: 02:40:33

The Retinal Circus is a live album by Canadian musician Devin Townsend. The audio and video material were recorded at Roundhouse, London, on October 27, 2012, when Townsend performed a special one-night-only concert celebrating and covering his 20-year musical career.

In November 2011, after performing a series of special Devin Townsend Project shows, Devin Townsend revealed his plan to perform a one-off concert in London, England, that would cover his musical career from mid-1990s up to that point. Townsend stated that he wanted to create a "more than musical" show which included a storyline, multiple performers and special effects. Later he said that the concert would be recorded for future release.

The concert lasted approximately three hours, and it was divided into two parts, with an intermission in between. The band consisted of the same personnel as the recent years' Devin Townsend Project line-up, and the special guests were Anneke van Giersbergen and Jed Simon, with Steve Vai hosting the show via pre-recorded video projected onto screens. The setlist was focused heavily on material from Epicloud and a few other albums from Townsend's catalogue; the setlist included no songs from Terria, Accelerated Evolution, Ki and Ghost. Townsend also performed, against his current principles, two Strapping Young Lad songs. He later stated that this was because of the career-spanning nature of the concert, and playing those two songs was a "closure for him and Strapping Young Lad". He also wanted to "respect the legacy of the band" and to reconnect and perform again with Jed Simon.

The concert was one of the most prepared Devin Townsend shows ever, with over a year of pre-production, and it was recorded in high definition with a higher budget and a more professional approach to production than the previous live release, By a Thread. 5000 people saw the sold out performance, and the concert was also streamed live through Livemusicstage.com.